耐心——我現在就要
我希望我能知道你現在具體在哪兒，希望能知道你的生活中正發生着些什麼事。我希望我們可以坐在一起，一起禱告一會兒。或許，你在現在所處的環境中很難保持耐心。我就有過這樣的經歷——我很認真誠懇地為一些事禱告，但卻似乎得不到答覆。耐心是一種能力，是在重擔之下打起精神的能力，是對希望以及身邊的人不拋棄不放棄堅持抓牢的能力。耐心就是等待主，深信主知道什麼對我們是最好的，主是值得信賴的。當神沒有很快就回應我們的請求和禱告時，我們會覺得神似乎不在我們身邊。但是，神是可信靠的，並且天天如此。有時等待可能看起來很痛苦，但是我們需要記住，永遠不要將神延遲的答覆誤以為是神的拒絕。他不可能也不會讓我們失望。請聽聽神的話,“你們必須忍耐，使你們行完了上帝的旨意，就可以得着所應許的。因為還有一點點時候，那要來的就來，並不遲延”(希伯來書10:36-37)。我真希望我們能站在彼此身邊，一同禱告，也許會有這麼一天的。
作者: Andy Baker
譯者: Wang Jing
播音: Edward Short
37 PATIENCE – I WANT IT NOW
I wish I knew exactly where you were and what is going on with you in your life. I wish we could sit together and pray together for a while. You may be in a situation where having patience is really tough for you right now. I know I have prayed for some things very seriously and earnestly and no answers seem to come. Patience is the ability to bear up under the load. It is the ability to hang on, hold out and hold fast to hope and to the people around you. Patience is waiting for the Lord, knowing that He knows best and that He can be trusted. It might seem like God is not around when he delays answering our requests and prayers but He can be trusted every day. At times, the waiting may seem bitter. But we need to remember and never think that God’s seeming delays are His denials. He cannot and He will not fail us. Listen to God’s words: “For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and not delay” (Hebrews 10:36-37). I wish we could pray together in person. Maybe we can do that someday.
Sweet Hour of Prayer / 37
Author: Andy Baker
Translator: Wang Jing
Audio version: Edward Short
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